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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A three-line stanza.






2. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






3. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






4. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






5. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






6. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






7. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






8. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






9. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






10. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






11. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






12. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






13. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






14. The time and place of a story or play.






15. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






16. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






17. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






18. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






19. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






20. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






21. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






22. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






23. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






24. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






25. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






26. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






27. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






28. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






29. A four line stanza in a poem.






30. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






31. Broken down acts.






32. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






33. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






34. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






35. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






36. The main character of a literary work.






37. The dictionary meaning of a word.






38. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






39. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






40. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






41. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






42. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






43. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






44. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






45. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






46. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






47. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






48. The organizational form of a literary work.






49. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






50. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.